BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 2 
ae layers of uric acid. This is the reason why the calculi is formed of =| 
‘successive layers, gee Ses = = mae Se 
_ Cure.—Persons affected with the gravel or stone should avoid all 
iments of a heating or windy nature, as salt meats, sour fruits, Wc. 
‘may use for diet, such things-as tend to promote the urine 
keep the body open, as asparagus, lettuce, parsley, turnips, carrots, 
and radishes ; also onions, leeks and celery, which are reckoned medi- 
]; together with decoctions of mucilaginous vegetables, as marsh- 
, parsley, liquorice, linseed, &c. Whey, buttermilk, barley- 
&c., are good for common drink. “wastes 
ities of limewater and buttermilk 
water, 
. . To prevent a return, equal quantities 0 
should be drank at meals, and constantly to the quantity of a quart 
aday. Gentle exercise is proper. , 
In what is called a fitof the gravel, which is occa- 
stone sticking in the wreter, or urethra, cooling and re- 
-s and fomentations, cataplasms, d&c., are necessary. — 
ese I ve been fully pointed out in the treatment of inflamma- 
tion of the kidneys and bladder. JI shall therefore briefly mention 
them. A strong cold infusion of cleavers (for steeping destroys its 
virtue,) should be drank constantly, with or without ten drops of 
pumpkin-seed oil, every three hours ; these greatly relax constriction 
and open thé passage. The oil alone may be used in larger quan- 
tity, when the other cannot be obtained. It is the most powerful 
diuretic I'am acquainted with. At the ‘same time, put large poul- 
tices of onions, or garlics, bruised and‘slightly warmed upon the 
lower part of the belly, small of the back, and over the kidneys, if 
_ the stone is in the ureter. ey ee ce 
~ 'Phis treatment I have often seen give almost immediate relief 
2 a set excruciating agony. me is Pres mrt pe ee 
= I prescribe a constant drink of the 
a all cases of gravel and stone, be a ec : 
cold infusion of cleavers, or goose grass, made strong. This simple 
treatment alone has cured three fourths of the patients upon -wherh 
| : rticular, who had been afflicted with — 
I have tried it. One man in pa en afflict 
it nearly twenty years, and forthe latter part of the time, So severely, 
as to be disabled from business, was entirely relieved in three weeks , 
by merely drinking this tea alone : it dissolved the stone and brought 
jt away in a sandy substance. ‘This man has remained entirely free 
-om it to this time ; more than two years. 
substance discharged with the 
ly cleanse it out of the kid- 
there is a muddy, slimy 
ne, this cleavers infusion will effectual 
- neys and bladder. Z ga 
ee Aipalisa: as the sal wratus, soda, lime-water, particularly that made 
from oyster shells; or lime-water ther, 
may be drank constantly for a prevent 
Many things have been 
dies for the gravel; asa 
ened with honey; m 
times a day; the wva u 
Jnalf to a whole drachm, 
meadow, milkweed, black currant root, 
